OBJECTIVE Refine the understanding of the desirable skills for health sciences librarians as a basis for developing a training program model that reflects the fundamental changes in health care delivery and information technology. DESIGN A four-step needs assessment process: focus groups developed lists of desirable skills; the research team organized candidate skills into a taxonomy; a surve...

BACKGROUND A tool which can help to decide on the determinants in selecting the delivery type is an effective step towards the goals of the World Health. This study aimed to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of a scale based on Iranian culture to make decision on the type of delivery. METHODS This is a methodological study using a questionnaire proposed by Schneider. The follow...

We designed a Japanese version of the Smartphone Dependence Scale (J-SDS) for university students, and assessed its validity and reliability. For development of this scale, we initially selected 43 preliminary items based on previous studies of Internet and mobile phone dependence. Each response was scored using a Likert scale (0, 1, 2, 3), with higher scores indicating greater dependence. Afte...

This study set out to investigate in which type of media individuals are more likely to tell self-serving and other-oriented lies, and whether this varied according to the recipient of the lie. One hundred and fifty participants rated on a likert-point scale how likely they would tell a lie. Participants were more likely to tell self-serving lies to people not well-known to them. They were more...

The study aimed to accomplish a cross-cultural adaptation of the “Diabetes 39 D-39” instrument for Brazil, to test the validity of the adapted version in a sample of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and to describe the participants of the study, according to the scores obtained on the Likert-type scale. The instrument adaptation process followed several steps: instrument translation; achieveme...

The purpose of this study is to examine and analyze the influence availability movie genre, service quality, quality Netflix user satisfaction in Indonesia. This type research quantitative research. variables are satisfaction. data collection technique used a questionnaire with Likert scale measurement scale. number samples 85 samples. analysis multiple linear regression SPSS program. findings ...

The study aimed to accomplish a cross-cultural adaptation of the 'Diabetes - 39 - D-39' instrument for Brazil, to test the validity of the adapted version in a sample of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and to describe the participants of the study, according to the scores obtained on the Likert-type scale. The instrument adaptation process followed several steps: instrument translation; achie...

The quality assessment of training courses is utmost importance in the medical education field to improve training. This work proposes a hybrid multicriteria decision-making approach based on two methodologies, Likert scale (LS) and analytic hierarchy process (AHP), for programs. On one hand, qualitative LS method was adopted estimate degree consensus specific topics; other quantitative AHP tec...